skyland mountain

onion and garlic are a handsome older couple and ginger is their sexy little 3rd.

Markiplier told me that after you combine a rat and a spatula, there is no way to separate them, following this up with: “a ratula, if you will.”

I wrote a really stupid book, and it got plagiarized, and my agent was like, “Do you want to press charges? it’s your intellectual property,” and I was like, “Well, it’s my property but it’s not very intellectual.”

This is still the greatest thing my mind has produced.

my horny ass could not work at the penis and vagina factory

The Sun rises over Earth in a postcard illustrated by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, recalling the 1965 mission when he became the first human to walk in space.

Alexei Leonov was a prolific and talented artist, and drew and painted many pictures inspired by his experiences in space

This particular picture is rather special though, because he drew the first draft for it while in space using coloured pencils he took with him:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/31/first-picture-space-cosmonauts-science-museum-alexei-leonov

The first walk in space coincided with the first art in space. Humans literally can’t not do art

my dude Alexei made some insanely cool space art

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seeing a lot of takes recently (and this was popular during john green’s time here too) that adults who make content targeted towards kids or teens are automatically, not just cringe, but suspect? which is such an insane thing to believe because like…..who else would be writing books for 8-year olds? other 8-year olds? learn to just admit you don’t like someone or their work without implying they’re a pedophile, my god

Fucking thank you!

I'm so fucking sick of normal adult activities being vaguely and meaninglessly connected with pedophilia in order to embue them with an aura of Sin. STOP

I need to address this because it bothers me that much. I'm not going to call out anyone. I'm just going to give my opinion.

"If you see someone justifying THOSE shows that claim to be part of the BDSM community, I call BS. The BDSM community knows consent, they have to.... torture/kidnappings/etc. From my experience, most in that community are FIERCELY against SA" We'll give them credit for at least not using triggering words.

I am part of the kink community. If you doubt me. That's fine, that's your right. So, for those with an open mind here is some info on me. I joined the community when I was 19, my mentor is a mutual on here. To which people have seen her collaborate my story. I've been in a lifestyle D/s relationship for over 17 years. I'm not only into D/s but S&M.

Kinksters motto is absolutely Safe, Sane, And Consensual. As an SA myself, you bet your ass I'm against it. I am not against Kinnporsche, LITA, or others. Why? Because it's fucking fiction. It's art and I can recognize that. People have the right to express their feelings through art or live vicariously through art. You can not like it. That's fine but you don't get to dictate because you don't like something. Let me ask you, who is it harming? Don't tell me the queer community because this same type of art is shown in straight media all the time. If you are going to hold queer media to a higher standard, than you are part of the problem. You are perpetuating a system that would have us treated differently.

Now, it would be an issue if any of this was not recognized as problematic behavior. That's not what is going on here. We all know that we wouldn't want to meet Vegas in real life and what he did was fucked up. We all admit that Pai slides into unacceptable in real life. No one is denying the problems. In some cases we don't give a fuck and maybe some are living vicariously through art. In others maybe it's stimulating critical thinking skills in order for us to see the grey outside of black and white.

"They've dealt with the stereotypes of wanting to abduct some stranger to sexually torture them"

That's actually a kink dude. There are kinksters who are into role play of non-consent or abduction and even torture. I personally don't cause that isn't for me and wow would I flash back. However, I know individuals who have them. They don't hurt people. Some have a difficult time explaining why they have them and they feel guilty enough without someone saying they're a problem. True people of the community and allies don't put down other kinksters. Even if it's not our flavor, we strive to understand. BDSM isn't where you work out your problems but no one can deny that there is a psychological connection to what we do. I say bravo to the individuals who do this in the SAFEST, SANE, AND CONSENSUAL manner in which they can. Which is to live vicariously through fantasy.

"No, those individuals probably just enjoy fluffy handcuffs and think THAT'S kinky"

I know that I personally made comments about fluffy handcuffs and I'm sorry. I apologize to anyone offended by my comments. I was up in my feels because it felt this person was saying I wasn't community that I let it blind me. It's unacceptable to judge another kinkster. Light play is still kink. I know plenty of people who have fluffy handcuffs and a paddle. You are still kinkster and I'm truly sorry for being inconsiderate.

Okay, so there is my opinion. Take it or leave it.

not to downplay how much homophobia is still an issue but i feel like it would be impossible to communicate to The Youth today just how intense homophobia was in like, the 90's and early 00's

"yeah it used to be extremely common and completely normalized for kids in middle and elementary school to engage in homophobic witch-hunts to figure out which of their classmates were gay so they could bully and ostracize them. this was not considered political at all and children with liberal or left-leaning parents routinely participated. sometimes hand-based phrenology was involved."

The first time I heard the word gay in a derogatory context, I was on the playground with my then-best friend. This was early middle school, so ... somewhere between 2008–2010. I saw someone I used to be good friends with, and pointed him out. He was in the year above us, and I thought he was the most insanely cool person ever because he wore his uniform jumper sleeves rolled up in such a way that the hems were hidden and the sleeve went all baggy. My friend went very quiet, then she looked at me sidelong and said in a low, cautious voice "But [Art], that makes him look ... gay."

I don't remember if she told me what gay meant then. I was a horridly oblivious child unless something related directly to my interests (it was the autism), so I was used to Not Knowing Things. I do remember that it was like a gate had opened, and suddenly I was noticing people using it everywhere. Those Stabilo lefthanded pens were "gay". The glue sticks that had gone all dry and useless were "gay". You were gay if you rolled your sleeves up, if you let your hands flop limply, if you wore your uniform tie in a certain way. I became intensely embarrassed if a book used "gay" in any context (even though that context was invariably the older "happy or glad" meaning), and worried that someone would see that I was reading something with the Bad Word in it. I don't think any of us got what gay meant, except something to be laughed at, ostracised and avoided.

But what really sticks with me about this, even above the deep-seated homophobia of it all, was the utter resounding silence from adults. We had a teacher in year six (2011/12) who did a series of assemblies about bad language – about how we shouldn't swear, and how we shouldn't call each other cruel names. Nowhere in there did she tell us to stop using gay like an insult. Kids would shriek "ew that's so gay!" loud enough to be heard across the classroom and no teacher ever told them not to say it, but you'd get in trouble for saying damn.

It wasn't until I was in high school – in 2014 – that a teacher called an assembly with our year group and said "Stop it. A pen can't be gay. A wonky eraser can't be gay. Only people can be gay". He then put up those "Some people are gay. Get over it!" posters all around the school and gave negative points to anyone he heard calling inanimate objects gay. As far as educating kids on queer issues goes, this left a lot to be desired – but the bar was already so low you couldn't slide a hair beneath it. Piss poor as it was, that teacher's effort felt utterly revolutionary to me. I knew by then that my uncle was gay, but it still felt like a such a distant and uncomfortable subject because I just didn't know how to approach it. Having someone stand up and say gay without a flinch or a sneer was thoroughly shocking. And it bears repeating: this was in 2014. That's the same year as Juno Dawson's This Book is Gay came out (a book which, incidentally, blew my eyes wide open about a long of things re: my own identity).

The mid '10s were certainly when attitudes shifted, at least in my area of England. Homophobia was still there, but it had stopped being so casually relentless and "cool". When I was looking at high schools in 2012/13, the one I chose had a bad reputation for being "full of lesbians" because it was a same-sex school. When my little sister was looking at high schools in 2016/17, that lingering taboo around the school had almost completely faded. None of her friends even knew about the school's old nickname, which was a homophobic pun on the name (and which people literally used to chant in the street to mock the children who'd decided to attend that school). My sister's peers were all more concerned about the horrible outdated uniforms.

I'm at least four decades away from being anything like a "queer elder" in even the loosest definition of the phrase, but holy fuck thinking about this makes me feel Old. There are people only a handful of years younger than me who don't remember any of this stuff firsthand – and while I am so, so happy that they never went through it, it blows my mind how they can't conceptualise what it was like. It also blows my mind that I can, because I did go through it, and I went through it in a time that most kids think of as being progressive and ~woke~.

We're so, so much closer to our history than most young queers want to realise.

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They/Them

I may be aroace and the lead singer of a christian rock band but please make no mistake, I can and will lay down some pipe

Hanging Bats Vintage Framed Prints

here's an aesthetic i think a lot of you like but don't know the name of: frutiger aero! mainly popular from around 2005-2013. basically.... lots of shiny and glossy things! also sometimes nature themes! c:

here are more examples besides web design!

Back when the internet was wet

This is such a kind answer. As I've become a homeowner I get it more than ever. I am into maximalism, eclectic traditional/ grandmillenial design, antiques, etc.

But I have more understanding of and respect for the ways that people feel an urge to experience a home that immediately feels very clean and finished and safe. A home that, rather than being unique and creative, is instead something that instantly communicates dignity, safety, cleanliness and a sense of having made it. The vinyl roll floor that is infinitely cleanable and sterilizable, the modern/trendy budget features like farmhouse styles, barn doors, whatever - these are aspirational for many people.

For a reason. Life is not easy.

And when we talk about furniture and finishings (wallpaper, tile, paint, flooring, trim) for a house - this shit can get very EXPENSIVE and challenging to procure! The more unique it is, the more you'll probably pay for it, or you will have to put in a lot of mental or physical labor. Of course you can get furniture and stuff for cheap, or sometimes free.

But even the used furniture thing is not so simple. Used furniture is also difficult to buy and transport; it's incredibly heavy usually, it requires getting help you might have to pay for, who might not show up. You might be an older person or disabled and can't really lift anything. You might be very busy working and caring for young children. Used furniture might have smells, stains, or bring bugs into your house. You have to talk to lots of people on marketplaces who might be weird, might ghost you; you might have to go inside their houses.

Now to me, it's still often worthwhile to get used stuff, or buy on Marketplace! I do it all the time, with furnishings, finish carpentry supplies and tools, AND home decor. But whew it really is almost like a second job sometimes.

The joy of being owned by a Man with big hands